Sorry for the wrong statement about the centered page on the paper. - Humble I
use often width=middle and height=middle ;-) and end up with setting up the
parameters indvidually.
Willi
On 4 Dec 2011, at 12:24, Willi Egger wrote:
>
> On 3 Dec 2011, at 16:40, Paul Menzel wrote:
>
>> Dear ConTeXt folks,
>>
>>
>> I am trying to format the title page for a diploma thesis. Looking at
>> the Wiki most of the title or cover pages just have the title centered
>> and maybe a subtitle right below [1].
>>
>> \starttext
>> \definemakeup[titlepage][align=middle]
>>
>> \starttitlepagemakeup
>> {\definedfont[Serif at 20pt]University}
>> \blank[big]
>> {\definedfont[Serif at 20pt]\sc Institute}
>> \vfill
>> {\definedfont[Serif at 20pt]Diploma thesis}
>> \blank[big]
>> {\definedfont[Serif at 30pt] \setstrut \strut Interesting topic}
>> \vfill
>> by John Doe
>> \stoptitlepagemakeup
>> \stoptext
>>
>> 1. Is using `\blank` the recommended way to format the page? Or is using
>> boxes and placing them manually “better”?
>
> There are different ways to do this. If your solution give the result you
> desire... Not knowing wether this is better I use sometimes \godown[dimension]
>
>
>>
>> 2. Looking at the output it is not centered exactly and a little bit to
>> the left. Why is this the default? Does anyone know? Looking at the
>> manual [2] in chapter page design (p. 29, screen version) this seems to
>> be the backspace value. Is there an easy way to center it according to
>> the whole paper width? Additionally I would have guessed it to be more
>> on the right when glueing or trussing up(?) (German binden) the pages.
>
> Default is, that the page is centered on the paper, if the page and paper
> size are the same. However if you want a binding correction
> you need to do calculations yourself in order to be able to set the
> parameters correct ly.
>
> Check for the setuplayout command.
>
> \setuplayout
> [ backspace= left white+binding correction,
> width= text width which leaves enough whitespace at the right including
> some cut space,
> topspace= top white including cut space,
> height= text height including header and footer space, leaving enough
> bottom white and cut space,
> leftmargin= backspace - binding correction - left margin distance,
> leftmargindistance= ...,
> rightmargin= ...,
> rightmargindistance= ...,
> marking=on,
> ...
>
> Keep in mind that a book normally is cut after binding the bookblock at the
> front, top and bottom that is what I indicate with cut space.
> Backspace and topspace define the upper left corner of the typesetting area.
> Margin parameters do not influence the positioning of the typesetting area!
>
>
> Willi
>
>>
>> Thanks and I am sorry for the sleight off-topic second question,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Cover_Page
>> [2] http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf
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